Cajas de Cart?n Paperback - 2002
by Francisco Jim?nez
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- very good
- Paperback
Without sentiment or melodrama, this wonderful book perfectly portrays an immigrant child's view of leaving Mexico for California in the 1940s to pursue a better life.
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- Title Cajas de Cart?n
- Author Francisco Jim?nez
- Binding Paperback
- Edition None
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 144
- Language SP
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Boston
- Date 2002
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0618226168I4N10
- ISBN 9780618226160
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Chicano
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
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Summary
Francisco Jiménez emigrated from Tlaquepaque, Mexico, to California, where he worked for many years in the fields with his family. He received both his master’s degree and his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is now chairman of the Modern Languages and Literature Department at Santa Clara University, the setting of much of Reaching Out. He is the award-winning author of The Circuit, Breaking Through, La Mariposa, and his newest novel, Reaching Out. He lives in Santa Clara, California, with his family.
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Citations
- Booklist, 02/15/2003, Page 1076
- Criticas, 01/01/2003, Page 0
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2002, Page 122